Zakharova: Serbia’s security depends on Russia’s response

NEWS 05.01.202213:21
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Serbia’s security in many respects relies on Russia’s response to threats to that country.

„Over the last, probably, two hundred years, Serbia’s defenses largely depended on how promptly Russia responded to external threats to that South Slavic country,“ Zakharova said commenting a statement by Allied Joint Force Command chief Admiral Robert Burke welcoming Serbia’s efforts to bolster its defense capabilities.

„External threats to Serbia. By a weird coincidence, all those who have attacked Serbia are now NATO members. If Burke knows history, his statement welcomes Russia’s arms deliveries to Serbia, for instance the Kornet anti-tank systems, and he hopes very much that they will cool down the fervor of the Alliance’s hotheads who are muddying the waters in the Balkans. It is worse, but more familiar, if he doesn’t know it,“ Russia’s TASS news agency quoted her as saying.